Feb 2, 2010

Love is ingrained in our very beings

It's harder than you think...Being a girl.Because despite new surges of feminism in our society and artists like Sara Bareilles and Kelly Clarkson who embrace the power of a single woman...we are still taught over and over, via movies mostly...that we need to fall in love.Not to mention, all of our friends are doing it.

Every fairytale/disney movie growing up=happily ever after.I'm pretty sure every disney movie has a song (or three) about love in it.I cannot think of a single popular movie without a love story intertwined in it.

Then we get to middle school and they make us read/perform Romeo and Juliet. I'm not sure Shakespeare had any idea what he started.In highschool we have to walk through the halls ducking couples that are making out with each other.Then in college everyone starts getting married.

The Taylor Swifts and Jack Johnsons of the world make us believe in happy endings.

Perfume ads always feature some sexy man with his arms around a girl.Girls in clothing ads not only get a guy, but a very nicely dressed one.

Some of us are lucky enough to grow up in homes with parents who are mad in love.

Love is everywhere. People love love.

In short, we cannot blame people for being in love or wanting to be in love.It's simply inevitable.I'm saying this for myself, one of love's greatest cynicsbut also biggest fan.

You know what we're going to do, right? We're going to live like we're telling the best story in the world.

-The Brothers Bloom

We will do things that surprise others, but in our hearts we knew we could do them. -Thomas Kelly

It may seem boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.

- Russell, Up

Love is what inspired our Heavenly Father to create our spirits; it is what led our Savior to the Garden of Gethsemane to make Himself a ransom for our sins. Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of hope. - Dieter F. Utchdorf